Train-order holder.



F. BUTCHER.

TRAIN ORDER HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.17. 1913.

1, 1 17,8 1 3. Patented Nov. 17, 1914 zlga/zamig 5M YNE NORRIS PETERS 60.. PHOTD-LITHQ, WASHINGTON. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK BUTCHER, OF VERSAILLES, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO CENTRAL RAIL- WAY SIGNAL COMPANY, OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

TRAIN-ORDER HOLDER.

Application filed September 17, 1913.

Z '0 all whom, it may concern Be it known that I, FRANK DUToHnR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Versailles, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Train- Order Holders, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to improvements in train order holders.

The object of my invention is to provide a train order holder of this character made of a single piece of wire and so bent that a loop is formed therein to hold the train order and said loop so constructed that the strain to which a holder of this character is subjected when being pulled from the deliverer, does not tend to open the loop and release the train order.

Another object of my invention is to provide a simple, cheap and more effective train order holder having certain details of structure hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of a train order holder placed in a train order delivering device such as shown and described in a co-pending application. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of Fig. 1, showing the train order in section.

Referring now to the drawings, 1 represents my improved train order holder which as shown consists of a ring formed of a single piece of steel wire having a loop 2 formed in one side and which is adapted to enter the train order delivering device 3, whereby the holder may be more readily delivered to the crew of the moving train. While I have shown the loop 2 in the train order holder, it will be understood that this loop can be dispensed with without departing from my invention, such being the case when the holder is delivered by hand. Other means may also be formed in the ring for fitting over specific forms of train order delivering means without departing from my invention. One end of the wire forming my improved ring is provided with an eye 1, through which the opposite end 5, of the wire passes forming a loop 6, and the free end 7 of said wire is bent parallel with the portion 8 of the ring. This free end 7, may or may not positively engage the portion 8 of the ring and has its extreme outer end 9 turned outwardly, as shown in both Figs. 1

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 17, 1914.

Serial No. 790.259.

and 2, and forming means whereby the train-order 10 may be readily inserted between the portion 7 and the portion 8 of the ring 1. In train order holders of this character, it is understood that the engineer or crew of the train pass their arms through the rings and grab them from the operator while the train is moving very rapidly, and the construction and arrangement of applicants ring is such that the great strain to which it is subjected does not tend to open the free clamping end 7 of the wire and release the train order 10. I am aware that train order holders have been formed of a single piece of wire twisted together, such as shown in United States Patent No.1,05-1A72, February 25th, 1913, C. R. Tarbet, and also Patents Nos. 909.585 January 12, 1909, L. J. Greene and G. Bur-dell, and 970,831 Sept. 20, 1910, C. Johnson. Such devices as heretofore disclosed in the said patents are very complicated and the strain to which they are subjected tends to either open the loop holding the train order or so tighten it that it is almost impossible to release the train order when the crew of the train receives the holder.

By my structure it will be seen that all of the strain is on the loop 6 and the eye 4: and that portion 7 clamping the train orders to the portion 8 of the ring has practically no strain thereon when the order is being pulled from the hand or train order deliverer carried by the operator.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A train order holder, comprising a ring formed of a single piece of wire, one end of said wire having an eye formed therein, the opposite end of the wire having a loop passing through said eye and extending back parallel with the side of the ring.

2. A train order holder comprising a ring formed of a single piece of wire, one end having an eye formed therein, a loop carried by the opposite end of the wire and interlocking with the eye and having an outwardly extending portion on the outside of the ring parallel therewith and adapted to clamp the train order to the ring. 7 v

3. A train order holder formed of a single piece of Wire having an eye formed of one end, the opposite end of the wire having a loop interlocking with the eye, the free end of said loop extending parallel with a portion of the side of the ring and having its extreme outer free end turned outwardly away from the ring.

5 4. A train order holder comprising a ring 13 shown and described.

' 5. A train order holder, comprising a ring formed of a single piece of Wire, one end having an eye formed thereln, a loop carried the opposite "end of the Wire, and interlooking with the eye and having an outwardly extending portion extending in, a direction opposite to. that portion carrying the eye on the outside of the ring and parallel therewith.

6. A. train order holder comprising a ring formed of a single piece of wire, one end having an eye formed therein, the opposite end of the wire extending through theeye and bent back upon the ring and forming a loop extending parallel therewith, and having its free end turned outwardly away from the ring.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiixmy signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

FRANK BUTCHER.

i tnesses R. W. J UNKER, G. M. LEONARD.

Qupt es ot this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner. of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

